WHILE THE Union authorities is ready for suggestions from states on whether or not to carry the Class 12 board examination this yr, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal is realized to have underlined the significance of the school-leaving examination on the nationwide session held on Sunday, which was echoed by senior officers of the ministry.
Pokhriyal, in his handle, mentioned the result of the examination impacts each scholar’s life and decides their future in lecturers.
While the minister insisted that college students’ security was the federal government’s high precedence, he additionally emphasised the pitfalls of selling college students with out “reliable assessment”. The latter, he added, dangers affecting college students’ profession and their prospects within the job market.
Pokhriyal, in his concluding remarks, is realized to have additionally advised states that in current consultations with colleges, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had acquired the stakeholders’ “approval” to conduct the Class 12 examination. The National Council of CBSE Schools, too, is in favour of holding the examination, Pohkriyal mentioned.
School Education Secretary Anita Karwal described the Class 12 examination as “cutting-edge”. She is claimed to have advised states that the Union authorities was eager on going forward with the examination and leaning in direction of holding it in a truncated format.
In the shorter model, as reported by The Sunday Express, college students will seem for examinations in 19 main topics, at their very own colleges. The purpose behind self-centres, Karwal is realized to have mentioned, is to keep away from crowds and restrict the motion of scholars and lecturers.
Each examination can be 90-minute lengthy as an alternative of three hours, and college students will reply goal questions on OMR (Optical Mark Reader) sheets. These sheets carry bubbles that candidates need to fill, and these can be evaluated on the colleges themselves, Karwal knowledgeable states.
The truncated model of the examination, in accordance with Karwal, could possibly be held tentatively in two phases — July 15 to August 1 and August 5 to August 26 — and outcomes could possibly be introduced by September 5.
The Centre had known as Sunday’s assembly with state governments to hunt their suggestions on the 2 choices proposed by the CBSE for conducting the Class 12 examination and was chaired by Defence Minister Rajanth Singh.
The different possibility provided by the CBSE was to conduct examinations for 19 main topics within the present format, over three months. But, discovering an uninterrupted three-month window within the present scenario, Karwal advised states, was tough, and therefore the federal government was eager on the second possibility of shorter exams.
While most states, besides Delhi and Maharashtra, have supported going forward with the examination, a couple of (Kerala, Assam, Delhi, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Meghalaya) have urged the Centre to vaccinate lecturers and college students on precedence to make sure their security throughout their time on the take a look at centre.
States have been requested to ship their suggestions in writing by May 25. The Education Ministry is anticipated to announce the ultimate resolution on June 1.